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- Chapter 2: Supporting Pro-poor Health Systems. // Poverty & Health;2003, p29
Development agencies are committed to working in partnership with developing countries to develop health systems that provide quality public health programmes and personal (i.e. individual) health services that are accessible by the poor and nearly poor. This can be achieved in four...
- Low coverage but few inclusion errors in Burkina Faso: a community-based targeting approach to exempt the indigent from user fees. Ridde, Valéry; Haddad, Slim; Nikiema, Béatrice; Ouedraogo, Moctar; Kafando, Yamba; Bicaba, Abel // BMC Public Health;2010, Vol. 10 Issue 1, p631
Background: User fees were generalized in Burkina Faso in the 1990 s. At the time of their implementation, it was envisioned that measures would be instituted to exempt the poor from paying these fees. However, in practice, the identification of indigents is ineffective, and so they do not have...
- The Energy of Touch. Young, Leslie A. // Massage & Bodywork;Feb/Mar2004, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p10
Focuses on the importance of the power of touch in the medical care of individuals in developing countries. Social conditions of the indigent population in India; Various instances where touch proved to be therapeutic; Effects brought about by the method on the body.
- The rich-poor gap in global health research: challenges for Canada. Neufeld, Victor; MacLeod, Stuart; Tugwell, Peter; Zakus, David; Zarowsky, Christina // CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal;4/17/2001, Vol. 164 Issue 8, p1158
Focuses on global spending on health care research as of April, 2001. Recommendation by the Commission on Health Research for Development in 1990 that developing countries should increase their spending on medical research; Increase in spending by developing counties while foreign government...
- QUOTABLES. Dreifuss, Ruth // Pharmaceutical Executive;May2006, Vol. 26 Issue 5, p28
The article presents a quote from Ruth Dreifuss, chair of the World Health Organization's independent commission on intellectual property rights, innovation and public health, about a report designed to ensure that poor people in developing countries have sustainable access to the medicines,...
- ICNE's clinic considers expanding its outreach. Harrell, Lisa // Journal of Business (10756124);12/07/2000, Vol. 15 Issue 25, pB6
Reports on changes at a health clinic in Spokane, Washington launched by the Intercollegiate Center for Nursing Education/Washington State University College of Nursing (ICNE) and the Community Health Association of Spokane (CHAS). Goal of serving disadvantaged people; Renaming of the facility...
- Ugandan dancers light up Brooklyn nights. // New York Amsterdam News;11/19/94, Vol. 85 Issue 47, p8
Presents photographs of a fund raising event featuring dancers from Uganda's Daughters of Charity Society on November 1994. Other performers; Prominent personalities present in the event.
- Chapter 1: Investing in Health to Reduce Poverty. // Poverty & Health;2003, p19
Beyond its intrinsic value to individuals, health is also central to overall human development and poverty reduction. Yet the poor continue to carry a disproportionate burden of ill health. If the health of poor people is to improve, a pro-poor health approach needs to be put in place and...
- Physicians' social competence in the provision of care to persons living in poverty: research protocol. Loignon, Christine; Haggerty, Jeannie L.; Fortin, Martin; Bedos, Christophe P.; Allen, Dawn; Barbeau, David // BMC Health Services Research;2010, Vol. 10, p79
Background: The quality of the physician-patient therapeutic relationship is a key factor in the effectiveness of care. Unfortunately, physicians and people living in poverty inhabit very different social milieux, and this great social distance hinders the development of a therapeutic alliance....
- Study: Nonprofit hospitals gave $1.7B in care for poor. Dietderich, Andrew // Crain's Detroit Business;4/16/2007, Vol. 23 Issue 16, p2
The article focuses on the study titled "2007 Hospital Community Benefits Report," which revealed that nonprofit community hospitals in Michigan provided more than $1.7 billion in medical care in 2005 for the poor. The study, conducted by the Michigan Health & Hospital Association, is based on...
